On February 19, MozCast measured a dramatic drop (40% day-over-day) in SERPs with Featured Snippets, with no immediate signs of recovery. Here's a two-week view (February 10-23): Here's a 60-day view, highlighting this historic low-point in our…
Search Engine Roundtable
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Barry Schwartz
– Mar 1, 4:41 AM
This weekend there was another unconfirmed Google search ranking update, maybe starting around February 26th through the 27th and maybe the 28th. There was significant chatter in the SEO forums and some of the tools showed a spike around the 27th…
Search Engine Roundtable
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Barry Schwartz
– Mar 1, 4:31 AM
We saw Google testing a search refinement feature named ' see results that mention ' on the right side bar. But now, as captured by Brian Freiesleben and posted on Twitter, Google is testing it on the left side and Shalom Goodman saw them on the…
Search Engine Roundtable
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Barry Schwartz
– Mar 1, 4:21 AM
Google's John Mueller was asked how someone can help Google understand which pages of a site it really wants Google to index. A webmaster said that Google was only indexing 10% or so of the site's pages in the sitemap file. He asked how can they…
Search Engine Roundtable
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Barry Schwartz
– Mar 1, 4:11 AM
Google posted a Friday blog post named ' providing better product information for shoppers.' The blog post mentioned GTINs over 20 times, how is that for keyword density? GTINs, if you are not aware, is one of the more popular product…